"The age gap had an effect": Elin Cohen and the boyfriend broke up - voila! celebs. Cohen and Katz cultivated a remote-control relationship on the Israel-New York line.

She came to visit him, he came here to meet the family and made sure even when he was far away to send her impressive bouquets of flowers. "He was in one place and she was in another and add to that the distance - it's a problematic relationship from the beginning," said a close associate of the couple.